'The Help'

Dreamworks

Release Date: August 12 Why we're buying a ticket: Emma Stone has stepped nicely into the place vacated by Lindsay Lohan just after "Mean Girls," and we have a feeling her career is going to continue its upward trend as opposed to ... well. In "The Help," Stone takes on a more adult role¿ and we don't mean that in the "I Know Who Killed Me" stripper way. She plays Skeeter Phelan, a white novelist in the early '60s, who moves home after college to discover that her childhood maid and friend has mysteriously disappeared. The story examines the racial tensions in Jackson, Mississippi just before the Jim Crow laws were dismantled. --Carina Adly MacKenzie, Zap2it

Release Date: August 12 Why we're buying a ticket: Emma Stone has stepped nicely into the place vacated by Lindsay Lohan just after "Mean Girls," and we have a feeling her career is going to continue its upward trend as opposed to ... well. In "The Help," Stone takes on a more adult role¿ and we don't mean that in the "I Know Who Killed Me" stripper way. She plays Skeeter Phelan, a white novelist in the early '60s, who moves home after college to discover that her childhood maid and friend has mysteriously disappeared. The story examines the racial tensions in Jackson, Mississippi just before the Jim Crow laws were dismantled. --Carina Adly MacKenzie, Zap2it